The picture is another reminder (redundant) of how it sucks that they did away with the photo-perv parking lot at Flyover International. (Regular folks enjoy WATCHING noisy old jets fly by WITHOUT the need for cameras). There's an even better area on the NE side, a huge sound-arresting berm...you can stand on it and look DOWN on the 30R touchdown zone....Posted with no trespassing signs.

2. Flight report. I got juice AND coffee and TWO packets of cookies AND I didn't died. (Actually the flight was extremely lightly loaded and I enjoyed seats D, E and F to myself. This was NOT_a 737 Max so I could not test the Lav Sinks.

3. Of much significance is that the MD-11 is a FedEx that was probably operated by In the Shade at some point. The pilots seemed to demonstrate sheer genius as they held short of the runway.